Balls Pyramid | SOLD

A faded rocky shard disappearing in the deep-blue like an oceanic mirage is all that remains of this shield volcano that probably blew its top 6.4 million years ago.
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It’s the world’s tallest sea stack at 562 meters high and over a kilometer wide at the base, lost at sea off the coast of tiny magic Lord Howe Isle (a two-hour, motion-sickness-inducing, small-plane flight northeast from Sydney), constantly buffeted by never-ending wind and waves, surrounded by wheeling Petrels and Albatross.
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As if that’s not extreme enough, there’s the ongoing Epic of the Phasmid: a heroic, rock-climbing propelled discovery of the once-thought-to-be-extinct onyx black invertebrate, and its resurrection through the incredible husbandry of some very, very dedicated humans.